noun:

• west wind in the early spring (traditionally on the night of the 20th day of the second month of the lunar calendar); wind that blows seashells ashore [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate

noun:

• the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関

noun:

• sohal surgeonfish (Acanthurus sohal, species of tang found from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf); Red Sea surgeonfish; sohal tang

expression:

• this impure world (as opposed to the pure land) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土
• feces; faeces - archaism

noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street")
• street; district; quarters
• location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)
• divide (e.g. between life and death)
• fork (in a road); crossroads - orig. meaning

noun:

• Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term
• The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝
• head and shoulders (stock price, etc. chart pattern) ［さんぞん］ ➜ 三尊天井
• the three people one must esteem: master, father, teacher

noun / ~する noun:

• going to serve one's lord

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era) - abbreviation ➜ 参勤交代

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) - four character idiom

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) ➜ 春秋戦国【しゅんじゅうせんごく】

noun:

• toy from Fukushima prefecture in the shape of a red cow, also used as a talisman against smallpox

noun / ~する noun:

• forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate

expression:

• used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question - female language ➜ ものか

noun:

• prisoner; captive; prisoner of war
• Emishi allied with the Japanese during the Nara and Heian periods ➜ えみし

noun:

• Di people; Zhou dynasty term used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the north - derogatory term ➜ 北狄

expression:

• the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月

noun:

• shell-matching game popular with court aristocrats during the Heian period
• tribadism - colloquialism - vulgar

noun:

• confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized ➜ カステラ・ボーロ・コンペイトー

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books

noun:

• sole (esp. the tonguefishes of family Cynoglossidae, but also the true soles of family Soleidae)
• red tonguesole (Cynoglossus joyneri)

noun:

• stick used to drive off birds (during the New Year's procession) - archaism ➜ 鳥追

noun:

• the most trying spot or period; the most difficult period

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to surpass the rest (e.g. of a large group); to stand out from the crowd; to be the best by far ➜ 抜群

noun:

• evening moon; moon that can only be seen in the early hours of the night (esp. from the 2nd to the 7th of the eight month) ➜ 夕月